I am a new Joomla user. I do not know PHP, but have been developing in ASP for over a decade, so I understand a bit about coding.

The reason I chose this comments system for my Joomla site is because it's built to use the same table as for articles and uses a regular Joomla account for anonymous comments. It struck me as much more logical to use Joomla's own architecture for an extension rather than reinvent the wheel.

It seems to me a lot of extensions are built by developers who do their own thing, and that puts me at risk of their extension breaking when I upgrade Joomla. Working *with* Joomla seems better than just adding a bunch of stuff *to* Joomla.

As a new Joomla user, figuring out Joomla itself is a bit challenging. A lot of the extensions I've installed have required me to learn their backend as a separate learning experience. It's a *lot* easier to manage this extension because it treats comments as just another article.

The other advantage of using Joomla functionality for Joomla extensions is that you can then use Joomla tools on them. For instance, you can use the Latest News module to make a "Latest Comments" module on your site.

I like it *very* much. IMO, the developer made all the right architectural decisions to result in an elegant solution for comments.

It's not fancy, it's not flashy, it just *works* and it's easy.

I have struggled and gotten confused with nearly every extension I've installed. Partially, this is because I don't fully understand Joomla's architecture yet. But a *user* shouldn't have to!

This one, I installed, followed the instructions to set it up, wrote a few test comments, and never thought about it again. It's just there and it works and I don't have to remember how it works or what I did to hack it or anything. Simple.

I recommend this extension highly, not just to users to download and install, but to other Joomla developers to emulate!

I don't normally review extensions, but I was amazed at this one. I wasn't sure at first why it wasn't showing up straight away. Read the documentation which explains *everything!* and set it up following the steps and it dropped in perfectly with no fuss. Even the styles don't need changing. The default is so simple and clean that it should match pretty much any website. This was so perfect, whereas the module I used for the 1.0 version of joomla needed a lot of css work to make it appear seamless. I am extremely happy with this extension!

My only suggestion is to have the email address as an optional instead of a required field incase guest commenters want to be notified of more comments - ie in my case they may ask a question about an article and people can answer it, but at the moment they won't know unless they come back to the site.

Tons of options, I was looking for a good comment system and I found it. The developers of YVComment hit a home run with this extension.

Note: You must install the Component/Module/Plugin, they are each separate files. I want to reiterate this point to anyone who is installing this extension.

I been looking for a software that will comment on my articles and this is great software it worked without a problem.

I would recommend yvComment for anyone that needs to add article comments functionality to Joomla 1.5.x website. Took me less than an hour to get a working solution. I particularly like the fact that comments are stored just like regular Joomla articles, makes the maintenance and admin interface easy and clean. Questions about extension receive quick and informative feedback from developers, and I hope that frequent updates to this extension will continue as well. Some areas for improvement: threaded comments (comment to comment), possibly with AJAX expanding/collapsing, custom/additional fields to comment forms (maybe email address for guests, geographic location, etc.)

I just downloaded this and I think its great! Works well.
I did notice one issue and that is the "add comment" and comment boxes are not showing up in IE but works well in Firefox.

Owner's reply:
Thank you for the reply, by I think 'Great!' didn't ment you rated this extention as 'zero stars'? :-)

What's about 'one issue', please go to the forum, search for answers and post your reports there: we can't discuss and solve this problem here, in the JED :-)

This extension is brilliant.

I wanted my visitors to have the ability to leave comments on articles, including guests (users who are not logged in). To prevent comment spammers from abusing this, the need of some anti-spam measure was obvious, and yvComment supports at least two different Captcha plugins (separate extensions). I managed to get everything up and running the way I wanted to in less than an hour.

If you're interested in such functinality, yvComment is great. Be sure to read Yuri's instructions on his web page first, though. I believe it would have taken me a great while longer to figure everything out if I hadn't read the instructions first.

Thank you, Yuri!

I have tried all the comment systems available for my site and this one is by far the best. It is simple with good features and didnt have a single issue with the install.

As newbie that I'm, only I can say: PERFECT, good work!!!!

I've been looking for a Joomla 1.5 comment extension... and this is the best! Awesome. Yes, you have to go through the instructions... but once you've done that, it's easy and nice to use! Excellent!

Installed this on Joomla 1.5.1 stable. I have old 1.0 template, so I am running in legacy mode. My server has PHP 4. I setup this to work with jos_content integrated mode. Works perfectly - no problems at all. Makes my website much more interactive with users. Thank you very much, great component!

You can use this as a guestbook also. Make an article 'guestbook'. Link from menu to this article and voilą. Done. I like the simple layout and it's easy to modify the CSS to your taste. Take a look at my layout http://www.tkilla.be/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=43&Itemid=33

this plug in really excellent.

We can put smiley even at the title of the articles.

I hope can make customize smiley more user friendly. For example has a web base interface to create own smiley

This extension is great! This is exactly what a commenting extension should be. It works as advertised and isn't bloated. The styling is a bit elementary, but it was easy to modify the css to give it more of a custom look. The installation requires your undivided attention as it involves several steps. Pay attention to the directions and you will be fine. The author seems very dedicated to his work and writes quality code.

i try everything but this was the only comments systems than works in Joomla 1.5